Cistopus Gray, 1849

Zheng, Xiaodong, Lin, Xiangzhi, Lu, Chungcheng & Ma, Ruijuan, 2012, A new species of Cistopus Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the East and South China Seas and phylogenetic analysis based on the mitochondrial COI gene, Journal of Natural History 46 (5 - 6), pp. 355-368 : 358

Genus Cistopus Gray, 1849

Type species

Octopus indicus Rapp, 1835 in de Ferussac and d’Orbigny, 1834 –1848

Diagnosis

Octopods with biserial arm suckers; eight small mucous pouches, each with a small pore, in the oral surface of the webs with one located between each of the arm bases; hectocotylus of mature males with tiny ligula, calamus absent or barely visible (after Liao and Lu 2009).